Grade 6-8, 9-12
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On-Demand Webinar

Teaching Economics While Cultivating Civil Dialogue – Series

Time: 60 mins,
Presenter: Cheryl Ayers
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Objective

In this webinar teachers will be able to:

  • Understand how to use research-based economic reasoning skills to critically inquire, analyze, discuss, and debate economic topics to develop evidence-based opinions.
  • Identify controversial issues and culturally responsive teaching best-practices that cultivate civility toward opposing viewpoints while increasing student engagement.

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State Standards

Concepts

Business Organization, Circular Flow, Circular Flow, Decision Making, Employment/Unemployment, Externalities, Externalities, Factor Markets, Factors of Production, Game Theory, Incentives, Incentives, Market Equilibrium, Market Equilibrium, Market Failure, Market Structure, Markets and Price, Opportunity Cost, Opportunity Cost, Perfect Competition, Phillips Curve, PPC, PPC, Producers and Consumers, Productive Resources, Productive Resources, Productive Resources, Productivity, Scarcity, Scarcity, Scarcity, Scarcity, Supply and Demand, Supply and Demand, Unemployment, Wants and Needs

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Description

The first in a series of two webinars, this lecture-based professional development reviews essential concepts, theories, best practices, activities, and lessons on how teachers can successfully teach economic topics using evidence-based opinions and civil dialogue instructional strategies. Research-based controversial issues and culturally responsive instructional strategies for teaching economics will be modeled by the presenters using current events articles, cost-benefit analysis, PACED decision-making, and the economic way of thinking six economic principles. Background knowledge, current events articles, student-friendly PPT slides, lessons, handouts, classroom-ready activity sheets, and research studies included.

 

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